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Dr. Marni Hill Foderaro is an award-winning and celebrated author, speaker and educator. She earned her doctorate in education and completed postdoctoral studies at Harvard after a very successful and rewarding 35-year career as a high school special education teacher, with 12 years as a university adjunct professor. Marni’s life was forever changed after experiencing numerous trauma-induced STEs-Spiritually Transformative Encounters. Marni’s 2020 Best Books Award Winning Spiritual fiction “God Came to My Garage Sale” is prominently endorsed by James Redfield, best selling author of “The Celestine Prophecy” series of books, among celebrity psychic mediums and founding directors of IANDS (International Association for Near Death Studies). Marni is a lover of animals, nature, music and world travel who handles life’s challenges with love and compassion. She values honesty, integrity, equality and goodness and prays for peace on earth. In addition to her speaking engagements and various writing endeavors on embracing Spirituality after surviving Domestic Violence, Narcissistic Abuse and Parental Alienation, Foderaro is a contributing author to numerous anthology books, including: “The Last Breath,” “The Evolution of Echo,” “We’re All In This Together: Embrace One Another,” “The Ulti-MUTT Book for Dog Lovers” and “bLU Talks Presents” (Business, Life and the Universe.) Marni’s latest book series is entitled: “True Deceit False Love.”
Reviewed by Tammy Ruggles for Readers' Favorite
God Came to my Garage Sale, by renowned Dr. Marni Hill Foderaro, is an intriguing work of fiction that delves deep into the nature and existence of God from an atheist's point of view, using a garage sale as the focal point and setting. Spiritual awareness and self-realization are explored in this well-received novel, as well as life after death. We have protagonist Janet hosting a weekend garage sale due to money issues, and during this time, signs come to her that bring messages and clarity from deceased loved ones.
This author has created such an inspiring spiritual journey that you can take along with her, and it's more down-to-earth than it may seem at first glance. You have real-world problems that almost anyone can relate to such as financial difficulty, the challenge of simplifying your life, trying to sort through a cluttered life, losing a cherished home. But the truths that are unveiled during the garage sale are life-altering, and readers can benefit from these spiritual revelations and lessons. Science is beginning to explore the hidden truths and experiences of spirituality and consciousness and may bridge the gap at some point, allowing all of us to have a better understanding. The book can inspire us to be more connected to one another, and share everyday spiritual events.
The story may challenge your beliefs or bolster them, or maybe have no effect at all. But this book makes a giant effort in explaining that spirituality can thrive in the midst of dark times. As you read, you can feel the author's sense of compassion and urgency for her subject matter, and she really has a gift for conveying it in a way we can understand. The story opens with a bit of sadness for Janet, but the honesty is there, and you may see yourself or someone you know in her, but the story does pick up in a positive way from there. For a novel that may elevate your understanding of spiritual matters and your place in the universe, God Came to my Garage Sale by Dr. Marni Hill Foderaro should be at the top of your reading list.
